Holistic Anthropology: Emergence and Convergence

Given the broad reach of anthropology as the science of humankind, there are times when the subject fragments into specialisms and times when there is rapprochement. Rather than just seeing them as reactions to each other, it is perhaps better to say that both tendencies co-exist and that it is very much a matter of perspective as to which is dominant at any moment. The perspective adopted by the contributors to this volume is that some anthropologists have, over the last decade or so, been paying considerable attention to developments in the study of social and biological evolution and of ma

Bioculturalism / Stanley J. Ulijaszek -- The biological in the social : evolutionary approaches to human behaviour / Robin Dunbar -- Domesticating the landscape, producing crops and reproducing society in Amazonia / Laura Rival -- The biological in the cultural: the five agents and the body ecologic in Chinese medicine / Elisabeth Hsu -- On the social, the biological and the political : revisiting Beatrice Blackwood's research and teaching / Laura Peers -- Anthropological theory and the multiple determinacy of the present / Howard Morphy -- Holism, intelligence and time / Chris Gosden -- Movement, knowledge and description / Tim Ingold -- The evolution and history of religion / Harvey Whitehouse -- The visceral in the social : the crowd as paradigmatic type / David Parkin